The "Smart Safe City": Gendered Time, Speed, and Violence in the Margins of India's Urban Age
The "Smart Safe City": Gendered Time, Speed, and Violence in the Margins of India's Urban Age
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“智能安全城市”：印度城市时代边缘的性别时间、速度和暴力
DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2019.1687279
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Datta A
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作者：
Datta A
速度是塑造现代城市和当代城市生活愿景的基础。速度和加速度的概念产生了不同的概念，即快速城市化是对进步和机会的追求。在这篇文章中，我研究速度看起来像从边缘，当看到通过在城市边缘的年轻女性谁是应付在城市工作的不稳定性的斗争，同时谈判根深蒂固的性别权力关系在家里。通过研究如何通过“智能安全城市”的比喻来概念化速度，以及这对那些生活在数字和城市边缘的人意味着什么，我研究了时间的谈判如何成为城市边缘性别生活的基础。使用时间映射，参与式研讨会，WhatsApp日记和深入访谈的方法，我认为，对于那些在边缘，日常生活是根深蒂固的城市的节奏和家庭生活的节奏之间的时间斗争。尽管印度对“智能安全城市”的关注调动了技术修复的逻辑，但对年轻女性来说，移动的手机是科普日常时间斗争的重要技术。本文的结论是，虽然智能安全城市中的速度和时间观念的转变塑造了通过技术测量、可视化和表现暴力侵害妇女行为的做法，但城市周边的人们通过一种缓慢的、不可见的、随着时间和空间展开的生活暴力来遭遇和协商其时空性。
Speed is fundamental to shaping visions of the modern city and of contemporary urban life. Notions of speed and acceleration have produced distinct conceptualizations of rapid urbanization as a rush toward progress and opportunity. In this article, I examine what speed looks like from the margins, when seen through the struggles of young women in the urban peripheries who are coping with the precarity of working in the city, while negotiating deeply entrenched gender power relations within the home. By examining how speed is conceptualized through the trope of the “smart safe city” and what this means for those living in the digital and urban margins, I examine how a negotiation of time becomes fundamental to gendered life in the urban periphery. Using methods of time-mapping, participatory workshops, WhatsApp diaries, and in-depth interviews, I argue that for those in the margins, everyday life is entrenched in time struggles between the rhythms of the city and the rhythms of family life. Although the focus on the “smart safe city” in India mobilizes the logics of a technological fix, for young women the mobile phone is a significant technology to cope with daily time struggles. This article concludes that although transformations of ideas of speed and time in the smart safe city shape practices of measuring, visualizing, and representing violence against women through technology, those in the urban peripheries encounter and negotiate its spatiotemporalities through a slow violence of life that is invisible and unfolding over time and space.